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Revenue Cloud
Get Started
- Salesforce Go
  - Features and Feature Sets
- Functional Areas and Features by Licenses
- Billable Usage Types
Coexistence
- Subscription Management Coexistence
- Sales Force Automation Coexistence
- Salesforce CPQ Coexistence
- Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Billing Coexistence
- Service Cloud Coexistence
- B2B Commerce
Get Ready for Your Revenue Cloud Implementation
- Plan Your Revenue Cloud Implementation
- Build Your Revenue Cloud Implementation Team
- Revenue Cloud Limits and Considerations
- Preconfiguration Steps
- Set Up Revenue Cloud
- Revenue Cloud Glossary
- Explore the Revenue Cloud Data Model
- Predefined Context Definitions in Revenue Cloud
Migration
- Get Ready
- Differences from Salesforce CPQ
- Migration Phases
  - Phase 1
  - Phase 2
  - Phase 3
- Operational Considerations
- Evaluate and Select a Migration Strategy
- Technical and System Architecture Changes
- Data Dependencies
- Implementation Considerations
- Product Data
- Asset Data
- Billing Data
Upgrade Revenue Cloud
- Upgrade Guidance for Spring ’26
- Known Issues and Limitations for Spring '26
Product Catalog Management
- Begin Using Product Catalog Management
  - Product Catalog Management Editions and Permission Sets
  - Product Catalog Management Personas for Revenue Cloud
- Product Catalog Management Set Up
- Plan Your Product Catalog
- Organize Your Products with Catalogs and Categories
- Manage Dynamic Attributes in Revenue Cloud
- Create Product Templates Using Product Classifications
- Create Products and Product Bundles in Revenue Cloud
- Manage Qualification Rules for Products in Revenue Cloud
- Manage Product Selling Model in Revenue Cloud
- Product Ramp Segments in Ramp Deals for Lines
- Product Discovery and Guided Product Selection
- Product Catalog Management Limits
Salesforce Pricing
- Begin Using Salesforce Pricing
  - Turn On Salesforce Pricing
  - Salesforce Pricing Editions, Permission Sets, and Personas
- Salesforce Pricing Basic Setup
- Salesforce Pricing Advanced Setup
- Considerations for Importing and Exporting Pricing Data
- Cost Books and Price Books
  - Define Costs in Cost Books
  - Define Prices in Price Books
- Explore Price Adjustment Schedules
  - Create and Manage Price Adjustment Schedules
  - Pricing Adjustment Batch Jobs
- Build Your Pricing Procedures Using Salesforce Pricing
- Use Pricing Elements in Pricing Procedures
- Unique Pricing Scenarios
- Access Your Pricing Information
  - Pricing Discount Calendar
  - View Pricing Data Using Lightning Components
- Salesforce Pricing Limits
Rate Management
- Explore Rate Management in Revenue Cloud
- Rate Management Setup
- Rating Procedures
- Rating Discovery Procedures
- Rate Management Limits
Product Configurator
- Get Started
  - Turn On
  - Permission Sets
- Set Up
- Explore the Product Configurator Flow
- Configure Products with Product Configurator
- Rules and Constraints in Configurator With Constraint Rules Engine
- Define Configuration Rules with Business Rules Engine
- Third-Party Configurator
- Product Configurator Limits
Transaction Management
- Begin Using Transaction Management
- Transaction Management Features
- Quotes and Orders in the Revenue Cloud
- Ramp Deals in Revenue Cloud
- Sell Usage-Based Products
- Contracts in Revenue Cloud
- Manage Asset Lifecycle in Revenue Cloud
Advanced Approvals in Revenue Cloud
- Begin Using Advanced Approvals
- Customize Pages for Approvals
- Design an Approval Workflow
- Use Advanced Approvals in a Quote
- Email Templates in Advanced Approvals
  - Create Approval Alert Content Definition Records
- Advanced Approvals Considerations
Dynamic Revenue Orchestrator
- Dynamic Revenue Orchestrator Basic Setup
- Dynamic Revenue Orchestrator Advanced Setup
- Design Your Order Decomposition
- Design Your Order Orchestration
- SLA Jeopardy Administration
  - Configure Fulfillment Step Jeopardy Rules
- Configure Automation Failure Handling
  - Configure Fallout Rules
  - Configure Fulfillment Step Retries
- Submit Orders for Decomposition and Order Fulfillment
- Dynamic Revenue Orchestrator Concepts and References
- Dynamic Revenue Orchestrator Limits
Usage Management
- Begin Using Usage Management
  - Enable Usage Management
  - Permission Set Licenses, Personas, and User Permissions
- Set Up Usage Management in Revenue Cloud
- Validate Your Usage Product Setup
  - Usage Product Validator Considerations
  - Run the Usage Product Validator
- Manage Consumption for Usage-Based Products
- Billing Schedules and Invoices for Usage-Based Products
- Usage Management Limits
Billing
- Set Up Billing
  - Turn on Billing
  - Guided Setup for Billing
  - Assign Permission Sets
  - Select Default Records
  - Configure Context Definitions for Billing
  - Add New Billing Fields to Page Layouts
- Set Up Additional Billing Features
  - Set Up Financial Accounting Features
  - Turn On Invoice PDF Document Generation
  - Turn On Email Delivery of Invoices
  - Turn On Sequential Numbering Features
  - Set Up Credit Memo Features
  - Set Up Billing Dispute Management
  - Capture Taxes at Header Level
  - Set Up Payment Features
  - Define Rules and Order to Apply Credit Memo and Payments
  - Self-Service Billing Portal
    - Raise Billing Inquiries and Invoice-Related Disputes
    - Pay Invoices with the Self-Service Billing Portal
- Considerations When Setting Up and Using Billing
- Define Billing Policies and Billability Rules
  - Create Billing Policies, Treatments, and Treatment Items
  - Understand Billing Treatment Resolution
- Create Payment Terms
- Manage Billing Arrangements
  - Create Billing Arrangements and Billing Arrangement Lines
  - Configure Billing Arrangements for Billing Schedule Groups
  - Examples: Flexible Invoicing for Complex Business Models
- Configure Milestone Billing
  - Define Billing Milestones
    - Method 1: Configure Billing Milestones Using Billing Treatments
    - Method 2: Create Billing Milestone Plans and Plan Items
  - Milestone Billing for Amended, Renewed, and Canceled Assets
  - Milestone Billing Example
- Define Tax Calculation for Invoices
  - Configure Tax Calculation for Invoices
  - Import External Tax Lines into Billing
- Create Billing Profiles
- Manage Financial Accounting
  - Financial Accounting Data Model
  - Legal Entities
    - Create Legal Entities
    - Legal Entity Automatic Population, Usage, and Considerations
  - Accounting Periods
  - Chart of Accounts and Journal Entries
  - Foreign Exchange Realized Gains and Losses
  - Legal Entity Accounting Periods Closure and Reopening
  - Capture Transaction Amounts in Multiple Currencies
- Preview Invoices
  - Default Document Template to Generate Invoice Preview PDF Documents
  - Generate Invoice Previews and Preview PDF Documents
  - Generate Invoice Previews with the Invoice Preview API
- Manage Billing Schedules and Billing Schedule Groups
  - Generate Billing Schedules
  - Update Billing Schedule Groups
  - Define Invoice Grouping on a Billing Schedule
- Period Boundary and Proration in Billing Cycles
  - Period Boundaries and Billing Day of Month
  - Field Combination Requirements
- Suspend and Resume Billing
- Generate Invoices
  - Invoice Data Model
  - Automated Invoice Generation with Invoice Batch Runs
  - Generate Invoices for Accounts or Orders
  - Create Standalone Invoices or Import External Invoices
  - Manage Invoices by Using APIs or Flow Actions
  - Void Invoices
  - Generated Invoice Details
- Generate Invoice PDF Documents
  - Default Document Template to Generate Invoice PDF Documents
  - Generate a Batch of Invoice PDF Documents
  - Assign an Invoice Document Template to a Billing Profile
  - Generate Invoice PDF Documents Specific to Billing Profiles
  - Generate a Single Invoice PDF Document by Using Flow, Apex, and...
  - Generate Invoice PDFs with Your Company Logo
  - Generated Invoice PDF Document Details
- Send Invoices Through Email
  - Define Invoice Email Delivery Configuration and Preferences
  - Send Invoice Emails from Invoice Records
  - Send Invoice Emails in Bulk from Invoice Batch Runs
- Manage Credit Memos
  - About Credit Memos
  - Credit Memo Data Model
  - Create and Apply Standalone Credit Memos
  - Create and Apply Credit Memos
  - Void or Recover Credit Memos
  - Automatically Convert Negative Invoice Lines
  - Automatically Apply Credits
  - Credit Memo APIs and Actions
  - Results of Credit Memo Application
- Configure Sequential Numbering for Invoices and Credit Memos
  - Gapless Sequential Numbering
  - Configure Sequence Policies
  - Manage Sequential Numbering by Using APIs
  - Sequential Invoice and Credit Memo Number Assignment
- Manage Debit Memos
  - About Debit Memos
  - Debit Memo Data Model
  - Create Debit Memos and Related Records
- Process Payments and Issue Refunds
  - Payments Data Model
  - Configure Saved Payment Methods
  - Migrate Tokenized Saved Payment Methods
  - Payment Schedules and Payment Schedule Items
    - Automatically Create Payment Schedules and Schedule Items
    - Manually Create Payment Schedules and Schedule Items
  - Process Payments
  - Payment Batch Run Overview
  - Retry Failed Payments
    - Set Up Payment Retry Rules
    - Examples: Configure Payment Retry Rule Sets and Retry Rules
  - Payments and Refunds APIs and Actions
- Manage Collections for Accounts
  - Create Collection Plans and Collection Plan Items
  - Set Up and Send Dunning Emails
  - Collect Payment Promises for a Collection Plan Item
- Write Off Invoices
- Manage Billing Disputes
  - Resolve Billing Service Requests
- Billing Account Overview
- Statement of Account
- Billing Operations Console
- Limits in Billing
Agentforce for Revenue Cloud
- Agent Templates in Revenue Cloud
- Set Up Agentforce for Revenue Cloud
- Set Up Community and Partner Access for Agentforce in Revenue Cloud
- Considerations for Agentforce in Revenue Cloud
- Agentforce for Revenue Quote Management
- Agentforce for Billing Employee Assistance
- Agentforce for Billing Service Assistance Agent
  - Set Up Billing Service Assistance Agent for Experience Cloud
  - Agent Topic: Invoice Line Explanation
- Revenue Agent Topic Reference
  - Agent Topic: Product Description Generation
Promotions in Revenue Cloud (Beta)
- Set Up Promotions in Revenue Cloud (Beta)
- Design Promotions in Revenue Cloud (Beta)
- View or Apply Promotions in Revenue Cloud (Beta)
Build and Manage Your Procedure Execution
- Understand the Order of Execution for Place Sales Transaction
- Create Procedure Plans
- Use the Procedure Plan Framework
- Sample: Apex Class for Product Discovery External Pricing
- Example: Use Apex Hooks to Extend Pricing Logic
- Export and Import Procedure Plans
- Procedure Plan Limits
Revenue Cloud Support for Experience Cloud
- Transaction Management Tasks Supported on LWR Sites
Revenue Management Intelligence for Revenue Cloud
- Set Up Revenue Management Intelligence
- Install Revenue Management Intelligence Apps
- Revenue Management Intelligence Dashboards
Revenue Cloud Operations Console
- Monitor and Troubleshoot Pricing Issues
- Troubleshoot Product Configurations
  - Set Up Product Configuration Logs
  - Turn On Configuration Logs

Create Accounting Periods

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Create Accounting Periods

Create accounting periods to organize and store financial information for specific time frames. For example, if your company tracks performance quarterly, define quarterly accounting periods.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with the Revenue Cloud Advanced license or the Revenue Cloud Billing license

User Permissions Needed
To create accounting periods:	Accounts Receivables Admin permission set

Accounting periods can be created for a month for internal reporting, and consolidated for a quarter, a half-year, or a year for external reporting.

From the App Launcher, find and select Accounting Periods.
Click New.
Specify a start date and an end date for the accounting period.
You can't create accounting periods that are longer than a year, or with start and end dates of an existing accounting period.
Specify the financial period in which the accounting period falls.
For example, if the accounting period is for the fiscal year of 2027, enter FY 2027.
Select Open as the Status.
When you create accounting periods, the status can only be set to Open.
Save your work.